Paper-hanging apparatus



A. GRIGAS.

PAPER HANGING APPARATUS.

' APPLICATION FILED FEB. 26, 192i; 1,412,402.

Patented Apr. 11, 1922.

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PAPER HANGING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 26, 1921.

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PAPER-HANGING APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent. P t nted Apr. 11, 1922.

Application filed February 26, 1921 Serial No. 447,907.

'To all whom it may concern:

Be-it known that I, ANTHONY GRIGAS, a citizen of Lithuania, residing at VVorcester, county of Worcester, and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Paper-Hanging Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to improvements in Wall-.papering machines, particularly of the type described in Patent No.

1,354,184, dated September 28, 1920, and has for its object to provide certain new and useful improvements in the construction and arrangement of such machines, whereby the operation of handling and pasting paper upon walls and ceilings is materially facilltated.

A further object of the invention is to provide a machine of this character in which the proper meeting of the'edges of the strips of paper is insured. V Another object of the invention is the provision of a machine which can be successfully operated bya simple train of'gears and which allows a ready supplementing of the paste supply.

A still further object of the invention is the provision of a paste receptacle of improved construction.

These and other objects and advantages of my invention will be more fully set forth in the following disclosure of the invention, and will then be specifically pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a material part of this disclosure,

Figure 1 is a side view of my machine constructed according to the present invention. Figure 2 is a top plan View of the same.

Figure 3 is a sectional View of the paste roller on an enlarged scale, the section being 1 taken on line 3-3 of Figure 2.

Figure 4 is a front viewof the paste roller partly in section along line 44 of Fig ure 2.

Figure 5 is a detail perspective view of a tool .for smoothing the paper used in con nection with my machine.

Referring to the drawings in detail, the

. numeral 10 designates a frame provided with a handle 11, which may be made of any desired length so as to be conveniently manipulated. At the upper end of said handle a level 12 is located allowing an observation to ensure a proper meeting of the edges of the strips of paper. 7

A shaft 13 is removably journaled in the frame 10 near the frontthereof, in which a roll or paper 14: is exchangeably held. Spaced from the .roll or paper a guard 15 is held between the side bars of the frame for guiding the paper around a paste receptacle 16. This receptacle is composed of two tubes, an inner stationary tube 17, and an outer rotatable tube 18 of rubber orthe like.

Both tubes are perforated as at 19 and 20 respectively, and the outer tube can'be rotated around the inner one so that the openings or perforations 19 of the same are either brought into alignment with the perforations 20 or are closed by the rubber coat of the outer tube 18. At one end the paste tube 16 is closed by a screw cap 21 allowing a supply of paste to be introduced into the paste receptacle.

The paper 14 is guided over the receptacle 16 and across thebristles 22 of a brush secured with its back 23 in the frame 10, and the guide 15 is carried about the brush back. The receptacle 16 is rotated around a shaft 24 carrying on the outside of the frame 10, a toothed wheel 25 in mesh with a toothed wheel 26 upon an extension of the shaft 27 on the outside of the frame and the shaft 27 is journaled within the frame and carries near the inner faces of side bars of the frame the strip cutters 28. On the extension of the shaft 27 is also secured a sprocket wheel 29, around which a belt 30 is uided, which is also guided over a sprocket wheel 31 on the extension of a shaft 32 journaled in the frame near the upper end thereof. Upon shaft 32 a roller 33 is secured and a brace 34. constituting a knife is fastened between the side bars of the frame 10, so that the paper 14 is guided over the paste tube 16 and brush 22 under roller 33 to be pasted against a wall 35 or the like when the machine is moved along the wall from the ceiling towards the floor.

A knife 36 is held by its handle 37 in bands 38 secured to the front bar of the frame 10 so that it can be conveniently reached by the operator, if occasion to use it arises.

A tool 39 provided with a handle 40, serves to press and smoothen the paper against the walls 35 while it is hung upon the same by means of the machine.

Thepaste roller 16 is provided upon its outer periphery with a plurality of brushes 41 as indicated in Figures 2, 3 and l.

l/Vhat I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is- I 1. In a paper hanging machine, the com bination with a handled frame body, a roller mounted at the upper end of said frame body to make contact with the paper laid against a wall, a means for trimming the edge of the paper,an inner stationary perforated cylinder and an outer rotatable perforated rubber. cylinder surrounding said inner cylinder constituting apaste receptacle, a cap for closing the paste supply opening at one end of said receptacle, means for rotating. one of said cylinders, a plurality of brusheson saidouter cylinder, a level for indicating deviations from a straight path of-saidmachine alonga wall to be papered and for determining the proper meeting of the edges of two adjoining strips of paper on a wall.

2. In a paper hanging machine, the combination with a frame, and an'operative handle engaged therewith, and means for supporting aroll of wall paper in said frame at thelower end thereof, a shaft, a paste receptacleihavingan outer tube mounted on said shaft to rotatertherewith in said frame, a gear at the outer end of said shaft adapted to bevoperated by the movement of the machine along a wall, a plurality .of brushes on said receptacle, a brush mounted on said frame 'in front of said paste'receptacle, a roller at a the upper end of the frame for pressing the paper against the wall to be papered, guides in said frame for guiding the paper from said roll past the paste receptacle and said brush, and under said roller, and astrip cutter on said gear shaft for trimming the edge of the paper during the operation of the machine. 7

3. In a paper hanging machine of the class described, the-combination of a frame, a shaft removably held in said frame adapted to receive a roll of wall paper, a second shaft, a paste receptacle on said second shaft, abrush secured with its back in the frame, a guard in said frame below said receptacle, a gear on said second shaft outside of the frame, a third shaft in said frame above said second shaft, constituting a paper guide, a toothed wheel on said third shaft in Inesh; with said gear, a. strip cutter on said thirdshaft, a sprocket wheel on said third shaft in juxtaposition to said toothed wheel, a fourth'shaft near the upper end of the frame, a. sprocket wheel on said fourth shaft, a belt guided over both sprocket wheels, and a roller on said fourth shaft adapted toengage a. wall for pressing the paper against the same and operating said sprocket wheels, gears and shafts to feed the paper from said first shaft, past the pastefreceptacle and the brush against the wallto be papered during the downward movement of the machine fromthe ceiling towards thefioor of the room to be papered.

In testimony whereof I'have affixed my signature. 7 ANTHONY, GRIGAS. 

